by Michael Harp; Silver Screen, April 1970 Can Kim Darby and Pete Duel find the fulfillment they want in marriage? Today they're totally in love at last. Their hopes have brought them the happiness they couldn't reach until now. They won't talk about the heartache that tore them apart for several grim weeks recently. Kim hid how wretched she felt. Pete was just as hurt, secretly, by her decision to not see him again. Their abrupt break-up wasn't detected by the press, but it jolted all their friends. After eight months of constant devotion, Kim was determined that she had to forget ... Read More

Teen Scene, April 1972 Pete Duel and Ben Murphy are bachelors, but they could give up the single scene — for the right kind of a girl. "Sure I plan to get married," says Ben Murphy. "When I find the right girl." And Pete agrees. "I'm in no hurry to be married," he says thoughtfully, "but if that certain girl came along tomorrow, well..." [M]aybe you're turned on by Pete Duel, the other star of Alias Smith and Jones. You've been wondering exactly what it would take to make him happy. Could you be "that certain girl" who'd make him give up ... Read More

16 Magazine, April 1971 Pete Duel — the "Smith" in ABC's new hour-long western Alias Smith and Jones — is no stranger to TV-viewers. He starred in the old TV series Gidget and Love On A Rooftop — and more recently he was in NBC's Movie of The Week, The Psychiatrist. Pete was born in Rochester, New York, on February 24 and soon after he and his family moved to Penfield, New York. Pete's father was a physician, as were a long line of Deuels before him. As a child, Pete dreamed of becoming a pilot, but when he enrolled at St. ... Read More

by Kay Gardella; New York Sunday News, April 25, 1971 He's Hannibal Heyes, alias Joshua Smith, in ABC-TV's Alias Smith and Jones, and he's lucky. It's Pete Duel we're talking about and he's lucky because he's starring in a comedy-adventure series that's being returned to the television schedule next fall, despite mass-mayhem committed on the majority of TV shows this season. When you consider that 34 television shows have been dropped from the schedule, the slightly sinister-looking actor, with the deep set eyes and black hair, should be bowing to Universal every afternoon at sundown. But like all individualists, he has his ... Read More

by Steve Nadel; TV Photo Story, April 1967 Judy Carne and Peter Deuel smile and smile for the cameras. But what's going on backstage? If you've been watching TV's Love on a Rooftop — and it appears that most viewers have made the show one of their favorites — you know that David and Julie Willis are as much in love with each other as two people could possibly be — regardless of the typical newlywed problems that often seem to threaten their bliss. The Rooftop stars, Peter Deuel and Judy Carne, are two of the most likeable people you would ... Read More

TV Star Parade, April 1967 This surprising turn of events could easily result from the newest twosome in Hollywood. For Sally Field, who was Gidget on television a while back, and Peter Deuel, who enacted the role of her brother-in-law in that now-defunct series, have discovered each other in a big way. Which is all the more astonishing, considering they worked together for a whole season and nothing sparked. Well, nothing much. "Oh, we went to one hockey game while we were working together on Gidget," Peter Deuel told us nonchalantly, "but that was all." Then he grinned in amazement at himself and said, ... Read More

Photoplay, April 1970 Love really happens quickly to Kim Darby. When just about everybody was betting on her romance with Pete Deuel, her Generation co-star, Kim married James Westmoreland on February 6. Talk about whirlwind courtships! The two met at a dinner party just two-and-a-half weeks before the wedding. The party was hosted by Michael Anderson, Jr., Jim's close friend since the days they worked together on ABC-TV's The Monroes. Said Jim: "Kim and I had total rapport at once. We have everything in common. If you love someone, you can love her as much in three weeks as you can ... Read More

Photoplay Album, 1968 He played a young husband in Love on a Rooftop, but in real life he's about as eligible a bachelor as there is around. A native of Penfield, N.Y., he comes from a long line of doctors and had expected to be one himself until a campus production of The Rose Tattoo gave him an acting bug which even his M.D. father couldn't cure. Dr. Deuel did prescribe medicine, however; he advised Pete to quit college (St. Lawrence University) and enroll instead at the American Theatre Wing in New York. From there he toured with a Shakespeare company, ... Read More

Press Packet for a 'A Time for Giving,' 1969 Young Pete Duel believes that the long-awaited breakthrough in his acting career has happened with his starring role in Joseph Levine's presentation of the Frederick Brisson Production, A Time for Giving, the new Technicolor comedy — opening at the Theatre. "If I don't make it as Walter, the angry idealist who says what he thinks and lets the chips fall where they may," Duel explained recently, "then I'll never make it. Where The Graduate made an important actor of Dusty Hoffman, I naturally hope the same can happen for me in this movie. "It's ... Read More

TV Radio Mirror, May 1967 Peter Deuel and Judy Carne are two riproaring individualists — types who make producers nervous with their love for speed, motorcycles, fastcars, wild dancing; types who get their kicks just living every minute. The whole idea is to enjoy, revel in and relish life. That's just what Peter and Judy do, and they enjoy doing it together on the set of ABC-TV's Love On A Rooftop or racing around the countryside on their leaping motorcycles. Why, they enjoy each other's company so much they even enjoy fighting. As Peter puts it, "We have some pretty spicy ... Read More

and with it a personal statement by Cecil Smith; TV Times (Los Angeles), 1971 Television is mostly by committee. One of its glaring weaknesses is its inability to accommodate the artist who wants to make a personal statement on film, which is about the only kind of film worth a damn. Maybe the closest to this that has happened lately is in the six episode mini-series The Psychiatrist, which stars Roy Thinnes (on the cover) and Luther Adler and opens Wednesday night as the fourth short series on NBC's Four-in-One. The statement maker, in this case, is 28-year-old Jerrold Freedman. Freedman is a large, ... Read More